Traces of mercury found in Bay Area town after garbage truck spreads waste



Officials say mercury was first found in a garbage can outside of the Amtrak station. Now, the contamination has been found along …

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  1. Well, if I had money, I'd tell you what I'd do
    I go downtown buy a Mercury or two
    Crazy 'bout a Mercury
    Lord, I'm crazy bout a Mercury
    I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road

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  2. Mercury is a bad substance, but it’s so easily handled with just sulfur powder, absorbs and binds to the mercury and then you can sweep up the sulfur powder for disposal. You don’t try to sweep up or wipe or individually pick up the little tiny liquid mercury balls that are floating around and rolling around themselves.. that would just spread the Mercury more break it up into smaller particles, make a mess and more exposure of evaporation to the surrounding air at the time that the product is being disturb

    Just like asbestos on your homes furnace ductwork is not toxic or dangerous as long as you don’t touch it and disturb.

    People freak out when they find out, they have asbestos in their home wrapped around their furnace pipes. You simply paint it with a latex paint, and it’ll basically stay there forever completely harmless find it together, surrounded by a Paint film with no possibility of small, asbestos fibers getting into the air

    Just another one of those things that people were a hypochondriac and worry about the world ending. Get all paranoid about
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  3. now for my latest idea, to identify the person/company responsible find out if this was in fact industrial quality mercury, and not thermometers. there cant be many businesses out there that produce high quality mercury due to its toxicity. put up a 100 mile radius and find out who did this moronic move

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  4. Wonderful. I walk my dog there every morning. We went thru there twice before they did the lock down. Too late to worry that it's on dog paws and shoes. Thanksgiving Day we got coated by that powder from the refinery also. Had I known about that one I would have kept my dog from rolling around in the dirt. Way slow on notification for both cases.

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  5. Oh the horror!
    I recall we used to play with mercury at school, we also had it in our thermometers and they broke and we would simply sweep it up.
    Oh no, panic, it is the attack of the mercury monster!

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